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...toss off Carmen (gleeful eyeful) Miranda too lightly. Garbed in a florist's nightmare, she struts about spouting Brazilian double-talk with the facility of a side-show barker. There is a certain electric element in her contortion with commentary, something that makes the whole experience at least refreshing...
...Both florist and telegraph offices agreed that mothers received a surprising percentage of the traffic, and variously estimated the flowers and messages going to mothers as being between one-half and one-third of the total...
Plump, amiable Editor Hall rises late, always walks by a florist's shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...
...studio doubling as an usher, grabs her and backs out of the studio with Lorna at the point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released, a little groggy from sniffing Lewisite gas,* Lorna winds up her stint by getting back the plans, telling her boy friend, the MBS announcer, that "faith and love will always endure." This week: Lorna Prevents Saboteurs from Blowing Up a Milwaukee Plant...
...humorous illustrative drawings and diagrams, spiced it with asides like: "The difference between a three-point landing and a one-point landing is that after the first you can fly the plane again. . . . Being playful close to the ground may mean an extra order of lilies for your neighborhood florist...